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Felix comes home and picks up the phone. He didn’t have the worse of it.
He sat in the living room, his whole body aching.
Everything hurt
He felt so dizzy
He felt so dull
He felt so
G u i l t y
“FELIX FINALLY WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY KIDS WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU”
“Jack…”
“YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXPLANATION, ME AND ROSIE HAVE BEEN WORRIED SICK ALL FUCKING NIGHT!”
“Jack-“
“REALLY??? FIVE HOURS? WHERE EVEN ARE YOU?? ITS BEEN FIVE OR SIX HOURS NOW, LOOK AT A FUCKING CLOCK”
“JACK-“ Felix sighs, yelling hurt, “they’re, at the hospital”
“…”
“I dropped them off, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to, I didn’t want to-“
“you crashed the fucking car?”
“Jack, I’m sorry you know I lov-“
“FELIX YOU COULD HAVE KILLED MY FUCKING CHILDREN, MY FAMILY, YOUR FAMILY”
“ I know, I didn’t want that I’m so scared jack I’m so sorry-“
“ You SHOULD be sorry you fucking drunk! I knew this would be a bad idea, I just though I could trust my BEST friend”
“Jaaa-ack” Felix said through sobs, “ I NEVER wanted them hurt you know that. I love them so much, i love Rosie so much,I love YOU so much-“
Jack sighs, “ Felix, I- ugh, I know you do, and I know you would never want to put them in harms way but you could have K i l l e d them. Rosie would be heartbroken, I would be heartbroken Felix,”
“ I sorry, I’m sorry jack, I’m so sorry jack I don’t want that I’m sorry I’m sorry-“ felixs guilt filled cry’s were cut by him coughing
He felt something wet on his hand, blood
“God- dammit” he mumbled
“ which hospital did you take them to?” Jack said with no emotion behind his words
“Xxxxxxxx hospital, I gave them your number and made sure Ed and molly were taken care of.” felix sniffled
“Ok, “ jack takes his head away from the phone and tells Rosie
“Are you coming?” Rosie asks, tears still flowing down her face from hearing what happened.
“I’ll be behind you I need to talk to Felix a bit more”
“Alright, just be there jack” Rosemary pleads
“Of course, I love you Rosie” jack says kissing roses head before turning back to the phone
“Felix, where are…..you?”
“I, uhh, I just came back home”
“Did you go to the hospital?” He said in an unreadable tone
“N- no, I just had to call you and, and be home”
“Felix what the fuck you were just in a car accident and you just went home? How did you even get home!?”
“I, I dunno, the hospital wasn’t too far from where… it happened and my house. I made it eventually” Felix says, feeling increasingly dizzy by the second
“Felix, I’m still pissed at you, but where’s Linda? She ought to have heard you come home” jack rolls his eyes
Felix stops, anouther wave of sadness and regret washed over him.
“Oh, god jack, I’m a fuck up. I do everything wrong and bring others down with me” Felix sobs “ I’m sorry I’m being so fuucking pathetic” he hiccups
“Felix,” he sighs “ I’m coming over”
“Jack …. I’m so tired..” Felix trails off
“Felix-“ jacks anger although still there is replaced by a shock of fear. “Felix stay awake ok?” He says
“Al-alright, I’m just gonna lie down”
Jack hangs up and rushes to his car. As much as he wanted to leave Felix there and go to Ed and molly he knew he wouldn’t be able to live with himself if he left Felix and he…. God he didn’t want to think about it.
After the short drive to Felix’s he pulled into the empty driveway. It felt wrong not seeing Linda and Felix’s car. He walks up to the door and knocks.
No answer
He tried pounding on the door.
“Felix!! It’s jack open the door!”
No response
“Ugh” jack started to panic
What do I do what do I do
Right! The spare key! He quickly snatched up a fake rock on the windowsill, flipping it over and grabbing the key.
He slams open the door a little harder than he meant to but that didn’t matter right now.
He slammed the door shut and speed walked to the living room
Shit
He looked down, horrified at the sight in front of him
Felix was slumped on the floor leaning on the couch , lightly clutching the telephone.
He was covered in blood
He was bleeding from the head and had multiple scrapes and bruises were already forming in some areas. His glasses cracked and falling off his face.
The most concerning thing was that Felix wasn’t moving.
Jack snaps out of his shocked state and rushes to Felix’s side grabbing his shoulders.
“ FELIX” he yelled shaking the smaller man, “ oh god, FELIX PLEASE-“ jack starts to panic even more, eyes tearing up
“No no no god no felix not like this you have to be ok” he rambles,
“jack?” A quiet voice calls to jack
He looks up and into Felix’s eyes, started to cry a bit.
“Oh thank god, you can fucking do that” he says hugging Felix tightly
“Oh- OH JackpleasrmyriBs” Felix sqeaks, he definitely had a few cracked ribs
“Sorry, we need to get you to a hospital” jack quickly wipes his tears away and grabs Felix’s hand trying to helping him up, “C’mon”
“ I- I don’t know I think I’m oka-“ Felix says not making eye contact with jack.
“Felix absolutely not you need to go to the hospital right now, look at you” jack says dumbfounded at how Felix was acting.
“I- alright” Felix says weakly before standing up, or at least trying to as his leg bent under him making him almost fall if it wasn’t for the couch, and jack grabbing him.
“Here” jack says pulling him up his back into a piggy back position, “ like old times”
“Yeah, old times..” Felix says leaning into jack
“Hey, don’t fall asleep ok, stay with me” jack says picking up his pace to the car
“K” Felix mumbles as he gets into the car with help from jack. Jack gets into the front seat and speeds off.
Felix panicked a bit, his memory flashed back to driving down this same road, looking at the fence he had just massacred.
The lights,
the jostling,
the pain,
the s c r e a m i n g
“Hey, hey, stay with me, your with me right now, I’m jack walten, your Felix kranken. Feel the carpet of the seats, feel your button up, your here with me right now ok?” Jack says noticing Felix starting to hyperventilate.
“Ye- yeah, I’m I’m here with you” Felix says trying to calm down. He still felt dazed and dizzy so slipping into a calm-ish state was a bit easier.
Jack finally makes it to the hospital, rushing to get felix on his back and bring him into the doors
“HEY UHH LITTLE HELP” he calls out to the receptionist as she calls a few doctors and their rushed to a room.
“We’ll take it from here,” one of the doctors says taking Felix from jack.
“ what happened?” Anouther nurse or doctor asked Jack
“Uh, car accident” he responded
“ alright, wait out here”
“Yeah, um he’s going to be ok right?” Jack asks nervous.
“Don’t worry, he’s in good hands” the nurse or doctor said comfortingly before walking away
Jack sighs, what a mess
He starts to walk back to the front desk, taking a glace back to the room Felix’s was taken into. At the desk he asks where Ed and molly are and walks up to the hospital room they shared. There Rosemary was sitting on a chair between the two beds crying. Ed and molly were laying asleep in the hospital beds, Ed had a bandage wrapped on his head and molly a smaller bandage.
Jack immediately teared up. He never wanted to see his children like this. Never. He quietly took off his bloodied coat and walked across the room and went straight to Rosemary. He wrapped his arms gently around her and rubbed her back.
There they sat in silence crying.
Feeling each others warmth and presence as comfort.
There they waited untill a doctor or nurse came in and told them the condition of their kids. They were going to be ok, but we’re currently unconscious and had multiple fractures in various areas of the body along with other impact related injuries.
Although thankful their kids were ok, they were furious at Felix. It kept resurfacing as they sat quietly in the hospital room. How could their best friend, and business partner do this to their children.
“Jack?” Rosemary spoke after an hour or so of silence.
“Yes Rosie?” Jack answers softly
“why did you have to stay behind? What… what happened to Felix?” Rosemary asked
“He…. he had dropped of Ed and molly and walked all the way home.” Jack sighed, soon rambling to his wife,
“I had to take him to the hospital. God, that idiot! He could have died! He- he was bleeding everywhere, I had to carry him in I-
I couldn’t let him die.” Jack ranted.
“You did the right thing jack. As much as I am angry at him, he, he would never do this on purpose. Do you know what happened? Other than the accident..” Rosemary said rubbing her husbands back.
“No, but Linda wasn’t home and he said something about feeling bad and it’s his fault. So I don’t know what happened. I have noticed he’s been drinking more often and staying later at the warehouse, god he’s such a fucking idiot” jack took his head in his hands.
“I’m… just glad their alive. The look in Felix’s eye, seeing him like how he was.. god. Seeing the kids like this- I’m so sorry Rosie.” He says taking his hands off his face and putting them in rosemary’s, her hand coming up to rub his hand.
“It’ll, it’ll be alright dear. They’re still here with us.” Rosemary said to jack, although it was more like she was telling herself too
“I love you Rosie”
“I love you jack”
Cut to
Felix was in his hospital bed, head in his hands. God his head hurt. Everything since going to the kids school party was a painful blur, only slightly remembering jack picking him up and driving him to the hospital.
Then he remembered “the tape recorder, I used it” mustering up his will power he picks his head up and looked around the room, finding his clothes and items neatly folded on the table in the corner of the room.
Sighing he, desperate to know what happened, wills himself into getting out of bed and snatching up the recorder making as little steps as possible and slips back into bed.
Hesitantly he clicked the play button, hearing a moment of silence before the crackle of his voice.
memories came flodding back, every thought and feeling from that night came crashing down on him all at once.
He frantically hit the off button and threw it across the room, hoping it would shatter on impact but he didn’t have the strength.